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Dec 9, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Maddy Harland |Jo Barker |Liz Zorab
The Sun enters the sign of Capricorn as her rays shine directly at their southern extreme for the year. This is the shortest day and the longest night of the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere they celebrate the Summer Solstice at this time. The great cosmic wheel of the year, the fiery hub of the universe, the symbolic Wheel of Time, is acknowledged here. Jul or Yule means wheel in Norwegian.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thegreenparent.co.uk | Glennie Kindred
Traditionally Samhain, or Halloween, is a time to honour our interconnected world, especially the unseen world of spirit; to welcome a time of rest and renewal; and to remember those who have died. Glennie Kindred celebrates the Celtic New Year at SamhainAs the season begins to change, and the year’s outer growth cycle comes to an end, the autumn reveals many new possibilities.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Liz Zorab
The Earth revolves around her axis in one day. The Moon orbits around the Earth in approximately 29 days (a lunar month). The Earth orbits around the Sun in one year. These cycles are the alternating waxing and waning rhythms of Gaia. Understanding their influence and becoming more aware of how their energy affects our lives, enables us to be integrated into their cosmic dance. As seen from the Earth, the Moon and the Sun appear to be equal in size.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thegreenparent.co.uk | Glennie Kindred
Glennie Kindred shares ways to mark the Autumn Equinox, on the 22 SeptemberThis is the harvest celebration of the year, and here we pause for a moment to appreciate all the abundance that the Earth has provided. It is also an opportunity to give thanks for your own harvest too and to look for the seeds within them. Day and night are equal in length, and at this point of balance, look for what might have become out of balance in your life and what you could do to help restore it?
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Maddy Harland |Jo Barker |Liz Zorab
Autumn Equinox is the doorway to winter. Summer is over and a new phase will begin. We can share with each other what we have gained and completed during the summer and make our plans for the coming winter. From now on the days will get noticeably shorter and colder. The Sun’s power is waning fast. This is the time of ripening fruits, nuts, mushrooms and berries. It is a busy time if you want to lay in stores for the winter.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
thegreenparent.co.uk | Glennie Kindred
Glennie Kindred welcomes a new dawn and embraces the oak treeThe Summer Solstice marks the longest day and shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. From this point onwards the days will shorten and the nights will lengthen until we reach the Winter Solstice once again. This is a transition moment, a recognition that a new cycle is about to begin, a moment to pause, to look back and celebrate what we have actively achieved in the last six months, and envision the harvest to come.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Anne Stobart |Stephanie Hafferty |Liz Zorab |Glennie Kindred
Organic gardener and homesteader, Liz Zorab chats to Permaculture magazine’s editor Maddy Harland, about what it is to be a seasonal gardener and shares some of her tips for winter gardening. Liz’s gardening cycle starts in the autumn, rather than the spring, and she uses the shorter days to dream and imagine the following year’s garden and any new projects. Liz shares how following the rhythms of Nature has improved her health and made gardening more enjoyable.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Chris Hope |Anne Stobart |Glennie Kindred
Medicinal herbalist and forest gardener, Anne Stobart, shares the healing properties of the raspberry plant, and how to make a raspberry oxymel for a sore throat.
RaspberryRubus idaeus Latin nameRubus idaeus L. FamilyRosaceaeHabit ShrubHardiness USDA zones 4-7 | UK zone 3Parts used Fruits/leavesHarvest time Leaves in April-May, fruits in June onwardsA deciduous fruiting shrub with traditional uses of the astringent leaves for diarrhoea and as a uterine tonic.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Anne Stobart |Liz Zorab |Stephanie Hafferty |Glennie Kindred
OliveOlea europea Latin nameOlea europea L. FamilyOleaceaeHabit Small treeHardiness USDA zone 8-10 | UK zone 8Parts used Bark/fruits/leavesHarvest time Leaves in August-October, fruits in DecemberAn attractive small semi-hardy Mediterranean tree, with leaves and fruits offering cardiovascular and other benefits. The European olive is a small evergreen tree growing slowly to 10m tall and 8m wide. The tree has an irregular and much-branched habit.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Stephanie Hafferty |Liz Zorab |Glennie Kindred |Maddy Harland
As October gives way to November, the days are noticeably shorter. There’s a cooler feel in the air and it seems to be the true start of autumn weather. As the leaves fall from the trees, the look and feel of the garden changes dramatically. Gone are the fresh and lush greens and blues of leaves on the trees against summery skies. The colours shift from overhead to beneath our feet, with yellows, reds and browns becoming dominant and skies become greyer and dimly lit.
